Blackpool Improvement Act 1917
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5.] Blackpool Improvement Act, 1917. [Ch. Ml],
CHAPTER lii.
An Act to alter the boundaries of the borough of Black-
A.D.
1917.
pool to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
that borough to construct additional promenades street
improvements tramways and other works and for other
purposes.
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[21st August 1917.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Blackpool in the county palatine
of Lancaster is a county borough under the government
of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the local Acts
specified in Part I. of the First Schedule and of the Orders
specified in Part II. of that schedule are in force in the
borough :
And whereas the urban district of Bispham-with-Norbreck
and the township of Carleton in the Pylde Rural District
immediately adjoin the borough:
And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the
boundaries of the borough so as to include within the borough
the urban district of Bispham-with-Norbreck and the part of
the said township of Carleton referred to in this Act:
And whereas the borough is co-extensive with the township
of Blackpool and the urban district of Bispham-with-Norbreck
is co-extensive with the township of Bispham-with-Norbreck and
it is expedient to alter and extend the boundaries of the town-
ship of Blackpool so as to include within that township the
township of Bispham-with-Norbreck and the said part of the
township of Carleton:
And whereas it is expedient to extend the limits of the
Corporation for the supply of gas and electricity to include the
borough^:
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i<>17. And whereas it is expedient to empower the Corporation to
— construct additional promenades street improvements tramways
and other works and to confer upon them the other powers
mentioned in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions con-
tained in this Act he enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot he effected
without the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have heen prepared hy the Corpora-
tion for the purposes hereinafter mentioned and such estimates
are as follows:—
(A)
For and in connexion with the purchase of
lands for and the construction of Works
Nos.
12 8 and 9 authorised hy this Act
and the purchase of lands under the
section of this Act whereof the marginal £
note is " Power to acquire further lands " - 186,843
(B)
For and in connexion with the purchase of
lands for and the construction of Works
Nos.
4 5 6 and 7 authorised hy this
Act , - 26,657
(c) For and in connexion with the purchase of
lands for and the construction of Works
Nos.
3 and 10 authorised by this Act - 32,000
(D)
For and in connexion with the construction
of the tramways authorised by this Act - 35,382
(E)
For and in connexion with the electrical
equipment of those tramways- - - 6,954
And whereas the several works included in such estimates
are permanent works and it is expedient that the cost thereof
should be spread over a term of years:
And whereas in relation to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act the requirements of the Borough Funds Acts 1872
and 1903 have been observed and the approval of the Local
Government Board has been obtained:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the works authorised by this Act and also a book of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed
owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required
or which may be taken for the purposes or under the powers
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of this Act were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace A.D. 1917.
for the county palatine of Lancaster which plans sections and —
book of reference are in this Act respectively referred to as
the deposited plans sections and book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
and Commons in this present ParMament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows:—
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Blackpool Improvement Short
and
Act
1917. collective
titles.
(2) The local Acts specified in Part I. of the First Schedule
and the Orders specified in Part II. of that schedule and so
much of the confirmation Acts specified in that part as relates
to those Orders together with this Act may be cited as the
Blackpool Improvement Acts 1853 to 1917.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows (that is to Division
of
Act
in
Parte.
say):
- Act int0
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Extension.
Part III.—Works and Lands.
Part IV.—Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions.
3.
The following Acts and parts of Acts (so far as the Incorpora-
same are applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act) are hereby incorporated with
this Act (namely):—
(1) The Lands Clauses Acts with the following exceptions
and modifications:—
(A)
Section 127 of the Lands Clauses Consolida-
tion Act 1845 (relating to the sale of superfluous
lands) is not incorporated with this Act;
(B)
The bond required by section 85 of the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall be
under the corporate seal of the Corporation and
shall be sufficient without the addition of the
sureties mentioned in that section ;
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